After Effects Guru: Keyframe Assistants

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5/27/2015

Explore the tools in After Effects that help with the animation "between" the animation: keyframe assistants. These features help speed up repetitive tasks and add style to animations. This course starts with the basics: using the Keyframe Assistant tool itself to control the appearance, sequence, and timing of multiple layers within a single pre-composition. Then you'll move into very refined, keyframe-specific adjustments using a few different tools: Convert Audio to Keyframes, the Wiggler, ease adjustments, and expressions. In the final chapter, author Ian Robinson explores some very helpful third-party assistants like LayerMonkey, MotionMonkey, PlaneSpace, and Ecospace to speed up your day-to-day workflow.

Topics include:

Controlling the speed and appearance of multiple layers with sequence layers

Building audio-driven animation

Integrating expressions and keyframes

Creating random animation with the Wiggler

Smoothing keyframe animation with ease adjustments

Increasing productivity with Layer Monkey, MotionMonkey, and Ease and Wizz

Skill Level Intermediate

2h 35m

Duration

38,448

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- Hi, my name is Ian Robinsonand welcome to A.E. Guru Keyframe assistance.In this course, we'll look at some toolsthat often get over looked and many othersthat are often looked for.We'll start by looking at one ofthe oldest helpers in After Effects,the Keyframe Assistant.We'll look at how to quickly buildand control the appearance of a sequence of images.Then, we'll take these a few steps furtherby taking that sequence and using itto build a more complex particle animationwith Red Giant's Trapcode Particular.

Then, we're on to building complexKeyframe animations using the Wiggler,Keyframe Interpolation, and audio driven Keyframes.Of course, you can't cover complex animationwithout diving into expressions.There we'll create some expressions for text,random motion, bounce and spring,and refined animations through Converting Expressionsto Keyframes.In the last chapter, we'll exploresome very helpful third party scriptsand effects, like LayerMonkey and MotionMonkeyfrom Aescripts.com,as well as PlaneSpaceand Echospace from Red Giant.

So, as you can see we've got a lot of ground to cover.Let's go ahead and get started animatingwith Keyframe Assistance.